Brands
LimeRoad For Men revolutionises online shopping & style discovery for men
MUMBAI: Limeroad revolutionized style discovery for women, today announced the launch of its new offering – LIMEROAD for Men.
LIMEROAD for Men is launching with 100,000+ style suggestionsand products for men, in order to address a unique need gap – people care deeply about how they look, yet find it difficult to find what they love when shown millions of options. LIMEROAD’s unique community of 200,000+ scrapbookers together with their deep algorithms create for users, fresh, unique looks, every 30 secondson the platform.
LIMEROAD for men includes 23 sub categories of apparel and accessories from over 250 Indian and International brands, together with tens of thousands of innovatively styled looks like “Style-like-bhai, shirts & sneakers, island style, cheeky graphics and minimal prints.”
This is a first for Indian men, who will now be able to look at their favourite stars, movies, sports heroes, as well as the latest trends in fashion and pick similar, affordable styles at a click – all thanks to LIMEROAD’s unique extensive community of stylists, called scrapbookers. As users keep repeating on LIMEROAD, the platform’s personalization algorithms kick in, thus automatically getting users closer to what they are likely to like the most. It is this content that drives the highest engagement and conversion rates in the industry – 13.5% for repeat users, and 7.5% for new users on the LIMEROAD app.
“Our mission is to build India’s most extensive discovery platform, driven by unique engaging content. We started out solving the problem first for women, and tackled the most fragmented of supplier and option ranges, enabling women to discover local and global trends like indie/ikat, gota patti, palazzos or fringes and botanical prints, pretty much as soon as they are first seen. All of this at super affordable prices. We will now bring this same discoverability to Indian men. We are ultimately democratizing fashion.” says Suchi Mukherjee, Founder & CEO, LimeRoad.
At launch, the internal team at LIMEROAD, 70% of who are men, were simply ecstatic. Says Prashant Malik, co-Founder & CTO, “I have spent the last 3 hours simply unable to do anything else but browse the platform. So glad we have launched LimeRoad For Men. Why should girls have all the fun?” Anuj VSN, LIMEROAD’s new CMO adds saying “We are solving a fundamental problem for men. We believe that at a macro level, men are getting more conscious about how they look, driven by local and global influences. And LimeRoad For Men is a delightful way to solve the problem.”
Brands
Godrej clarifies ‘GI’ identifier after logo similarity debate
Says GI is not a logo, will not replace Godrej signature across products.
MUMBAI: In a branding storm where shapes did the talking, Godrej is now spelling things out. Godrej Industries Group (GIG) has issued a clarification on its newly introduced ‘GI’ identifier, addressing questions around its purpose and design following a wave of online criticism. At the centre of the debate were two concerns: whether the new mark replaces the long-standing Godrej logo, and whether its geometric design mirrors other corporate identities.
The company has drawn a clear line. The Godrej signature logo, it said, remains unchanged and continues to be the sole logo across all consumer-facing products and services. The ‘GI’ mark, by contrast, is not a logo but a corporate group identifier intended for use alongside the Godrej signature or company name, and aimed at stakeholders such as investors, media and talent rather than consumers.
The need for such a distinction stems from the 2024 restructuring of the broader Godrej Group into two separate business entities. With both continuing to operate under the same Godrej name and signature, the identifier is positioned as a way to differentiate the Godrej Industries Group at a corporate level.
The rollout, however, triggered a broader conversation on design originality. Critics pointed to similarities between the GI mark’s geometric composition and logos used by companies globally, raising questions about distinctiveness.
Responding to this, GIG said its intellectual property and legal review found that such overlaps are common in minimalist, geometry-led design systems. Basic forms such as circles and rectangles appear across dozens of brand identities worldwide, the company noted.
It added that the identifier emerged from an extensive design process and was chosen for its simplicity, allowing it to sit alongside the Godrej signature without competing visually. While acknowledging that elemental shapes may appear less distinctive in isolation, the group emphasised that the mark is part of a broader identity system that includes a custom typeface, sonic branding and other proprietary elements.
Following legal and ethical assessments, the company said it found no impediment to using the identifier, reiterating that the GI mark is a corporate tool not a consumer-facing symbol.
In short, the logo isn’t changing but the conversation around it certainly has.
